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To turn down the volume on someone's panic, including your own.
means To gently calm a person's distress or ease a physical pain until it loosens its grip.
from From Old English sothian, meaning to prove true or verify; comforting someone once meant agreeing with them, and flattery slowly mellowed into kindness.
Old jobOnce meant to confirm something as truth.
Yes-man rootSoothing originally implied telling people what they wanted.
Soothsayer linkSame root — a truth-teller, not a comforter.